On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:47:06 -0500, Tom Ring
wrote:

Do you have any idea what the real
differences were in the libraries?

Hi Tom,

I can only speculate from my experience coding various expansion
series before the 8087 was generally available. My guess is they went
with the first one in a cookbook - Newton's method comes to mind, but
that is of vague recollection. It is generally useful as a first pass
method. M$ became extinct in the Pascal marketplace soon after. I
also moved on into C++ in the late 80s (a local company here wrote one
of the first cross-compilers).

The M$ crowd thought they would take that one on too. In 1990 they
asked me to come in and give classes. What a fiasco. The first
question was how to do inline code. They were arrogant to the point
of wanting to call "their" version C++++ with the +s stacked in pairs
to produce #. Can anyone guess how long C-sharp took to get to market?

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC